Kyrie: Orbis Factor - Medieval Chant of Eleanor of Brittany 🎶

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About the chant:
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This is an intriguing record, illustrating some aspects of the musical life of a community of Benedictine nuns in the great French double monastery of Fontevrault, an early medieval royal foundation. In 1304, Eleanor of Brittany became its sixteenth Abbess, having been trained as a nun in the English daughter house of Amesbury. The Gradual that bears her arms contains, in addition to the normal chant repertoire, a special repertoire of its own (not, as mistranslated in the notes, ''a repertory of the Proper'' which, in any case, was already there). It is this collection of miscellaneous pieces that throw a special light on the musical life of these nuns. Some items were undoubtedly intended to embellish parts of the liturgy itself on high feast days; others are more likely to have been used as pious entertainment during moments of recreation—then as now, in monastic communities.

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This chant is performed by CIRMA/ Ensemble Organum lead by Mr Marcel Pérès
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Text in Latin :
Orbis factor rex aeterne, eleison
Kyrie eleison
Pietatis rex immense, eleison
Kyrie eleison
Noxas omnes nostras pelle, eleison
Kyrie eleison
Christe qui lux es mundi dator vitae, eleison
Christe eleison
Arte laesos daemonis intuere, eleison
Christe eleison
Conservans te credentes confirmansque, eleison
Christe eleison
Deum scimus unum atque trinum esse, eleison
Kyrie eleison
Patrem tuum teque flamen utrorumque, eleison
Kyrie eleison
Clemens nobis adsis paraclite ut vivamus in te, eleison
Kyrie eleison